New York, NY– The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation is celebrating its seventh annual Feeding Tube Awareness Week® from February 5 to 9, 2018. About half a million children and adults in the United States alone rely on feeding tubes, a number that is expected to increase. Feeding tubes are not just for those at the end of life, they provide necessary nutritional support for children to live, grow and thrive. There are well over 350 conditions and diseases that can require tube feeding in children.

Medications can be given through your GT. Use the liquid form of your medication if it is available at your pharmacy. If the liquid form is not available, you must crush your pills.If the letters “SR” appear after the drug...

The 7th annual Feeding Tube Awareness Week® will be celebrated worldwide February 6-10, 2017!​​Feeding Tube Awareness Week® was created by the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, to increase awareness of feeding tubes and enteral feeding.This year we have...

​ We would like to thank Lisa Metzger from the The Oley Foundation for the Tube Talk article covering The Buckwheat in this months issue of their newsletter. Read More... This month we have sent out a feeding tube holder to Massachusetts,...